Maiia: There is a quote that we've used for the past 15 years.A quote that seemed like a validation from the Australian heartlands, from the pragmatic roots of the European diaspora, in solidarity with Indigenous and other struggles for recognition and respect. This year however it seems a little less apt.

"Middle-class western women have the privilege of serving the revolution, not of directing it. The ideological battles the feminist theorists are engaging are necessary but they are a preliminary to the emergence of female power, which will not flow decorously out from the universities or from the consumerist women's press." -Germaine GREER

The ParadoxNONETHELESSCommunity ledIndyMedia isSTILL HERE - and we are still talking.Consensus culture DID fail to make us shut up. Or tire out from futile endeavour. IT IS NEVERFUTILE FOR A WOMAN TO WALK IN INTEGRITY.

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Hierarchies of archaic authority - stay in the past, with your terrible pecking orders. Hands and ideas tightly clenched and deeply entrenched. More punk than professional, I once walked care free, from the fight for permission to WORK to capacity. Who would have thought the communications industries would have the same degree of difficulty nearly 20 years later.

"Solidarity, love and rage to my rebel warrior sisters and brothers. IWD should be a day of mass disruption to the oppressive power structures, not a celebration of our co-option or mere survival in a broken destructive system." Sam Castro 2018.

The editor and originator at Brindle Style Artists Network is Aotearoa visual artist and photographer Maiiawho has a Background in education, arts and freepress traditions of the 1970s.

Rather than existing at the expense of the people involved - Brindle Style uses a relational approach to community indy-media. Mission & Vision

Black, white or brindle, Woman - your heart is needed. A Big SHOUT OUT to all the Great Grand Mothers, the Sisters, the Daughters, the Nieces and Cuzzys!! I thank You and I pay my respects to you Strong Woman. - Love M xx

Folk across the street, across, oceans, across time, have essence values, linking us on Common ground, Solid Ground, Higher Ground, even Sacred Ground

BRINDLE STYLE IS NOT CONTRIVED TO ADVANCE SOMEBODYS PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGY. WE'RE NOT INTO TELLING LIES AND TALKING RUBBISH. WE'RE JUST PART OF THE TWO PERCENT OF WHAT YOU READ HEAR AND VIEW THAT COMES FROM MAINSTREET.